19 Related Articles from 2018-05-16

ALEX BRUMMER: BT's second rate reforms are not good enough. Change comes to BT very slowly. Successive bosses have talked of convergence, promised to deliver better for consumers and to eliminate the treacle layer of management. >>

Boban Marjanovic tried learning surfing lingo in delightful video. Boban is living his best life. >>

BT to open customer help desks in EE shops as it tries to repair its battered reputation. The helpdesks are being rolled out to 620 existing stores, with another 30 to open in the next seven months. BT was voted worst firm for shoddy service by Mail readers in 2017, 2016 and 2014. >>

CITY DIARY: David Cameron 'considering a role' as an advisor at Investment bank Greensill Capital. Greensill is hardly a household name, but at least it might get mopey Dave out of the house where friends say he’s still labouring over his already well-past-their-sell-by-date memoirs. >>

Controversial name of Dambusters dog will NOT be censored for 75th anniversary screening. The movie features a black Labrador, who was the mascot for RAF 617 squadron, called N*****. But the studio behind the anniversary screenings said the film would be shown unedited. >>

Crunch time for housing market: Buy-to-let sales plunge by fifth as £162m is wiped Crest Nicholson. As industry figures showed mortgage lending is on the slide, shares in Crest Nicholson dived 12.8 per cent after it warned that house prices have peaked but the cost of building them is rising. >>

Deliveroo dishes out £10m share options to staff – but not to its army of delivery cyclists . William Shu, the company’s chief executive, told employees that they were being given stock because ‘Deliveroo’s success is not just my success’. >>

Harry Angel tipped to cane Ascot rivals after comeback victory in Duke Of York Stakes. Harry Angel blew away his opponents in the Duke of York Clipper Logistics Stakes to tee up an attempt at cracking his Ascot hoodoo next month. >>

Job cuts and debt worries hammer Debenhams, House of Fraser and Littlewoods. In a ‘savage’ management cull, department store chain Debenhams is said to have pushed out directors that have worked at the firm for more than a decade. >>

Judy Finnigan retires from TV: Richard Madeley's wife, 70, quits presenting. Judy Finnigan has retired from television work, while husband Richard Madeley continues in showbusiness, after becoming one of breakfast TV's most famous double acts. >>

MARKET REPORT: Pub chains suffer a chill as the Beast from the East hits sales. Mitchells, which owns All Bar One, lost around £12m in sales due to the weather and revealed an 8 per cent fall in profits to £69m. >>

Maximum stake on ‘crack cocaine’ gambling machines will be slashed from £100 to £2. The maximum stake on ‘crack cocaine’ gambling machines will be slashed from £100 to £2 – but not until 2020, ministers will announce today. >>

Mother's Day BBQ curtailed after Kirkland woman gets brush bristle lodged in her throat. A Mother's Day barbecue landed a Kirkland woman in surgery after a bristle from a metal brush became lodged in her throat when she bit into a hamburger. >>

Next Royal Mail boss handed a £6m windfall to buy him out of his previous contract. Rico Back, currently the boss of the company’s parcels arm, GLS, was paid the money to compensate him for payments he would have otherwise received. >>

Not even superheroes can save Cineworld's takings from falling . Though popular with cinemagoers, the superhero films could not match the audiences that Beauty And The Beast and The Fate Of The Furious brought in last year. >>